Every single time.
I think everyone has had that experience where they’ve gotten a bit drunk and texted their ex… So there you go guys, that’s my advice - don’t avoid women on their phones, just go and ask em if they’re texting their ex!
Women can ask men too!
Its not really about the “texting their ex”. I tended bar for a some years and what I observed is that people who are on their phones in a bar/club/pub are usually bored.
It actually came about from a very drunk experience I had when I texted my ex and felt absolutely ashamed about it the following day… So I went into work on a day shift and when people came in and sat at the bar and ordered a drink, there’s usually that awkward silence when you pour their drink so I filled that void with “I texted my ex last night” and I got the same response every time - a laugh and a “oooh how did that go?!”… Mood was lightened and it usually struck up a really funny conversation and people stayed for hours. Somehow it became an icebreaker lol
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Barking dogs… Is that Bob Barker? Shut the front door Bob! Fuck off little Barker
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Damn masks !!
- Closed borders
*Covid-19
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Authorities that blame other authorities for their mistakes
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Snow
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Allergies, autoimmune disease
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Money (what if we just traded stuff and grow our own food instead?)
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I’ve got a standard answer for texts like that “The person you’re trying to text is old, please re-write your message with real words and try again”
Works especially well on teens, they usually give up and call instead 
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You act like I like to talk on the phone lol
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There’s good and bad sides with everything, I prefer phone instead of 30 long texts. But if I want to ask something quick. Text or messenger is great. No polite small talk, quick and easy 
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It wouldn’t matter; something would eventually become a currency because in order for me to give you something of value to you, you have to give me something of value to me. This is why socialism doesn’t work and currency is the one thing we can all attribute a unified value.
It can definitely fuck right off though.
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Ok I’ll give you that, I prefer a serious conversation over the phone or in person, it’s easy to be misunderstood in text. Plus it’s easier than having a 4 hour text conversation that could have been solved in 5 minutes
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Covid 19
House work
Bullying
My ex
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I might not be that old, but I still have a hard time understanding all the shortenings and letter/numbers combinations. And I’ve got a teen
I just think it’s annoying,
Your my age I believe 38? So you remember the old ass days of T9 texting where it took 20 minutes to type a 4 word message,
But we have had full keyboards for well over a decade on our phones. Use it.
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My teens know better!!
I said to my son one day, do you have a full keyboard on your phone?
Yes?
Then use it, I paid for the whole thing use the whole thing, or I’ll trade you for a flip phone. Problem solved
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Yep, I’m 36 so I definitely remember
The early phones (well at least a few of them) did come with a full keyboard too. In fact Nokia was among the first ones with it. I didn’t get one, so had to settle with T9. But it was on my wish list.
In terms of Cultural, communication and society science it’s actually an interesting phenomenon. And even more interesting that there’s an entire language made from our language, transfered to a short version to fit our lifestyle online. That appears so different to some of us that we actually have problems to understand it. But in general life, it’s totally annoying.
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Ohh the good old flip phone. My teen is 18 (well in a month) if she needs a new phone she’s buying it herself, I think we got her like 3 phones last year, because she dropped them, cracked the screen or something similar. Last one she got, we told her was the last one we’d pay for. And believe it or not, it’s still in one piece
And she usually calls when I ask her to rewriting messages that appears like greek to me.
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I’m suddenly reminded of that stupid text speak song from a few years back
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